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Greg Erlandson, president and publisher of Our Sunday Visitor, the national Catholic publishing house in Huntington, Ind., has a column in an upcoming edition of the paper describing himself as “culturally purple” — in a nation of “red states” and “blue states,” he’s caught in the middle. Part of the problem with reds and blues, he notes, is that neither side talks to the other, or if they do they “are shunned as traitors by their own side.”